A-Designs

A-Designs is led by renowned equipment designer, and all round top bloke, Peter Montessi. His objective when starting A-Designs was to create a comprehensive range of no compromise audio products, built to extremely high design specs, with quality components offering stunning audio results.

The A-Designs product range is extremely well populated and we became aware of the company when we first heard their Pacifica mic-pre. This was clea...Read More

A-Designs is led by renowned equipment designer, and all round top bloke, Peter Montessi. His objective when starting A-Designs was to create a comprehensive range of no compromise audio products, built to extremely high design specs, with quality components offering stunning audio results.

The A-Designs product range is extremely well populated and we became aware of the company when we first heard their Pacifica mic-pre. This was clearly a very high spec stereo mic-pre offering brilliant clarity with the 'big iron' sound beloved of American producers in the 1970's.

We've fallen for everything else we've tried of theirs - the brilliant Reddi tube DI Box, the smooth and musical Ventura pre, EQ and DI and their brilliant essential studio tools the Atty and Atty 2'd attenuation devices. A-Designs also make a comprehensive suite of 500 series modules split into two groups - specific application mic-pres and Pultec style EQs, with probably one of the best sounding Pultec EQ's available in the 500 series to date.

A-Designs make their stunning Hammer EQ, which was designed with Dave Hill (CraneSong / DaveHillDesigns) Pultec EM-EQ2 and the Nail Compressor. It's difficult to put into words quite how good these stereo 2u racks are, each one oozes beautiful build and design quality that puts them right at the top of the audio gaime.

If you're in the market for any preamp, EQ or compression, we can't recommend A-Designs highly enough.